Michelle McCool

I'm not going to do that.

So I got put in a lot of situations early on in those first two, three years of like a lot of quiet moments of like, I know this guy is trying to do something to derail my ascension here.

And I got to figure out a way to...

not blatantly go against him, but also I can't do that.

It's difficult.

Back to your point, once you kind of master it and you master the psychology of, not in-ring psychology, but the dressing room psychology back then, then you're like, okay, right?

And honestly, I'm glad that it happened because it helped me later on dealing, when I was in that position,

It was like, you know, it really left a bad taste in my mouth.

And I didn't want to, I didn't want people coming up to have to deal with the same thing.

You know, that whole, I think the Bill DeMott and Al Snow, I mean, that was just, that was always the process.

It's a generation, right?

Well, I mean, that was the way it was done for generations.

And whether right or wrong, they're trying to weed out the weak.

Right?

Because you can't come up here and be weak.

The grind is too hard.

It's too hard physically.

It's too hard mentally.

So that's where that came from.

Now, I think the process, obviously, is way different now.